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My point was if tables and chairs for a new school cost a million dollars, retrofitting the building is going to cost more than $2.4M.

Do you know what the final budget was to redo Dorothy Hamm? Keep in mind that H-B Woodlawn was there for 40 years, functioning as a middle and high school with a full complement of programs serving 700 students (not even counting the Shriver program). APS spent [b]$40 million[/b] to renovate and expand the existing building so that it could be a middle school that now enrolls....800 students. [/quote]
They essentially built a NEW 1/3 of the school. So yeah retrofitting existing office space for $10M would have been easy.

Why are you just counting one year of interest?  We are paying that debt for 30...[/quote]

Why do people complain about the spending at The Heights and not Dorothy Hamm? They spent $100M in Rosslyn and got a new building for 775 students. They spent $40M in Cherrydale and got 100 seats. Um..........[/quote]

Renovating an old building is always less cost effective per unit than building new, just like with a house.[/quote]

Why did they spend a dollar? HB was there and it was fine. They could have a) left HB there and built a middle school at The Heights (oh wait, the parents rejected that), b) moved HB and let the kids move into Vacation Lane as is (why was this not acceptable???) and saved $40 million either way. And now the south Arlington middle schools are huge compared to the north Arlington ones because Hamm is so far north all the moves came from Williamsburg and Swanson. [/quote]

Why? Because of a bunch of complainers in Taylor. You can thank them for this inefficient use of space. 
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